Level of access Twitter has given me to discuss w & learn from practitioners across areas is crazy. Who would have thought that a SMS product where you told your friends what you ate for breakfast can become a learning network? It has expanded my interest graph & overton window.
This isn’t just a feeling. Data backs it up. Exposure to people & ideas expands the realm of possibilities. I can attribute 100s of people that know of me, 6 jobs, and dozens of friends, professional relationships and new interests to it.
I track number of things I learn daily through discussions w people I respect & reading on twitter. It has consistently been at least ten a day. Once you immune yourself from the outrage disease, this free website is a goldmine. I wil give up on Google but not twitter.
It is one place where lazy proxies for gauging intelligence, resourcefulness & curiosity don’t matter much. You build relationships based on ideas. Not many people follow me but the quality & level of attention I get from the kind of people that do is what actually matters.
